sec.4Objects of Act

### sec.4 Objects of Act The main object of this Act is to regulate, and promote fair trading practices in, the operation of residential parks— to protect home owners from unfair business practices; and to enable home owners, and prospective home owners, to make informed choices by being fully aware of their rights and responsibilities in their relationship with park owners. The main object is achieved by— declaring particular rights and obligations of the park owner, and home owners, for a residential park; and facilitating the disclosure of information about a residential park, and this Act, to a prospective home owner for a site; and regulating— the making, content, assignment and ending of a site agreement; and the sale of an abandoned manufactured home positioned on a site in a residential park; and the variation of site rent; and facilitating participation by home owners for a residential park in the affairs, maintenance and operation of the park; and providing ways of resolving a residential park dispute; and protecting home owners from unfair or excessive increases in site rent; and preserving the safety and security of tenure of home owners. The following are also important objects of this Act— encouraging the continued growth and viability of the residential park industry in the State; providing a clear regulatory framework to ensure certainty for the residential park industry in planning for future expansion. s 4 amd 2010 No. 46 s 4 ; 2017 No. 42 s 9 ; 2024 No. 28 s 4 (sec.4-ssec.1) The main object of this Act is to regulate, and promote fair trading practices in, the operation of residential parks— to protect home owners from unfair business practices; and to enable home owners, and prospective home owners, to make informed choices by being fully aware of their rights and responsibilities in their relationship with park owners. (sec.4-ssec.2) The main object is achieved by— declaring particular rights and obligations of the park owner, and home owners, for a residential park; and facilitating the disclosure of information about a residential park, and this Act, to a prospective home owner for a site; and regulating— the making, content, assignment and ending of a site agreement; and the sale of an abandoned manufactured home positioned on a site in a residential park; and the variation of site rent; and facilitating participation by home owners for a residential park in the affairs, maintenance and operation of the park; and providing ways of resolving a residential park dispute; and protecting home owners from unfair or excessive increases in site rent; and preserving the safety and security of tenure of home owners. (sec.4-ssec.3) The following are also important objects of this Act— encouraging the continued growth and viability of the residential park industry in the State; providing a clear regulatory framework to ensure certainty for the residential park industry in planning for future expansion. - (a) to protect home owners from unfair business practices; and - (b) to enable home owners, and prospective home owners, to make informed choices by being fully aware of their rights and responsibilities in their relationship with park owners. - (a) declaring particular rights and obligations of the park owner, and home owners, for a residential park; and - (b) facilitating the disclosure of information about a residential park, and this Act, to a prospective home owner for a site; and - (c) regulating— (i) the making, content, assignment and ending of a site agreement; and (ii) the sale of an abandoned manufactured home positioned on a site in a residential park; and (iii) the variation of site rent; and - (i) the making, content, assignment and ending of a site agreement; and - (ii) the sale of an abandoned manufactured home positioned on a site in a residential park; and - (iii) the variation of site rent; and - (d) facilitating participation by home owners for a residential park in the affairs, maintenance and operation of the park; and - (e) providing ways of resolving a residential park dispute; and - (f) protecting home owners from unfair or excessive increases in site rent; and - (g) preserving the safety and security of tenure of home owners. - (i) the making, content, assignment and ending of a site agreement; and - (ii) the sale of an abandoned manufactured home positioned on a site in a residential park; and - (iii) the variation of site rent; and - (a) encouraging the continued growth and viability of the residential park industry in the State; - (b) providing a clear regulatory framework to ensure certainty for the residential park industry in planning for future expansion.